Dorothy Day, an inveterate pacifist and campaigner for social justice, has well described its contents as "bits and pieces of ideas gathered from everywhere," adding, "I'm not sure that the bishops realize that the text takes in all points of view.
And even when he's fossicking about with elements he's gathered up from everywhere, you read on more or less happily.
Dionysius, a king of Syracuse in the fourth century B.C., gathered craftsmen "from everywhere into one place," as Diodorus wrote, and rewarded them with high wages, gifts, prizes and, for the best and brightest, places at his table.
Panter-Downes described the scene in London: > People gathered in groups everywhere to talk of [the King's] … death, and then immediately of Elizabeth, without altering the tone of their voices, as though she, too had been struck down by some grave illness — the malady of sovereignty, which lasts a lifetime.
Everywhere, people gathered.
But it was all too real and when we set up the camera on the street they gathered around, looking from everywhere.
It's the same kind of bullshit you talk about, and gather around, as everywhere else.
The man's voice had gathered accents from pretty much everywhere.
